Quotes About Society

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La dictadura, devoción fetichista por un hombre, es una cosa efímera, un estado de la sociedad en el que no puede expresarse los propios pensamientos, en el que los hijos denuncian a sus padres a la policía; un estado semejante no puede durar mucho tiempo (Sir Winston Churchill)

The almost complete exclusion of religion in all its forms from the political sphere had left Nationalism the most powerful moulding instrument of mankind in temporal affairs.

Ingratitude towards their great men," says Plutarch, "is the mark of strong peoples.

When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and these were of doubtful utility.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

You don't understand, father," said Ludwik. "What don't I understand? What?!" "Organization." "To hell with organization! What organization?!" "The rational organization of society and of the world." Leon attacked Ludwik across the table with his bald pate: "What do you want to organize? Organize how?" "Scientifically.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

It's about Russia.

In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.

Aunque sigue siendo discutible que la pena de muerte sirva como disuasorio, los estudios demuestran que la probabilidad de que los criminales reincidan se reduce casi a la mitad después de la ejecución.

Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it.

Decían demasiadas cortesías ridículas. Pase usted, a sus órdenes, en casa de usted, con su permiso, es propio, puta madre: todos los que según la clase media son los modales de la clase alta.

With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children.

People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are. (p. 203-204)

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.